Problems with new Leon 2021

[Deleted member 123864]

Yep, my car was built in December 2020 and I've no major issues at all. I love it, and I came from a MK3 also.

 

[BoomerBoom]

Whereas my April 2021 has reversed wiring in the Aircon, buggy infotainment and the lane assist issue where it thinks it's LHD - which VAG still don't have a fix for but won't disable it.

 

[pepsimax73]

I think it's the same with the driving position it's more setup for a LHD, the new car seems to be like marmite you love it or you *ucking hate it

 

[Mrfunk]

I've had my Leon ST hybrid for six months now. Generally I'm very pleased. Most days I run only on electricity. Longer trips give about 54mpg on petrol.

I read the manual but I felt the style of writing told you how to do something but didn't explain what the effect would be or why you would want to do it.

I wanted to have a towbar fitted for my bike rack but this wasn't possible (recently I discovered that there are options but not through SEAT) and I spent a lot of time trying to find something that would work because there's nothing that will hang off the back either.

The car wasn't on the list of vehicles for which a £350 OLEV grant was available and I spent ages explaining to SEAT Support that they were looking at the wrong set of criteria on the Govt website. They said they were working on it but I gave up on them after a couple of months (they still haven't done anything) and paid full price for a charging point (EO) at the end of my garden that takes electricity from my solar panels. I don't get why SEAT have been so lazy about this. The Skoda hybrid is there, Golf and Passat are there, plus any number of Volvos.

The default of Lane Assist being switched on is at odds with the guidance in the handbook of only using it on motorways (I don't live by a motorway so I need to change it every trip) and I wish it wouldn't constantly default to ON.

Occasionally, the display that "reads" road signs and shows the speed limit switches to 90 kilometres per hour instead of showing a speed in miles per hour.

The infotainment touch screen is quite hard to use because to get the right "touch" and accuracy you need to rest your hand, and you then tend to rest your hand on the volume controls. Voice commands work but only if you know the format, and they don't react to "turn off Lane Assist!".

The GPS is good, but how do you delete a place you no longer wish to see on the screen?

When the car's wet, I always get wet trousers when loading the boot. Sometimes my phone will charge, sometimes it won't.

Left swipe when it shows on screen

 

[Highdef]

Lane assist behaviour is normal, but can be changed with OBD11. I haven't noticed the other issues in my car.

Hi,, Im desperate to disable the lane assist permanently. Can you give me pointers as to how to do this with OBD11 ?

 

[G.P]

To provide some balance in opinions - if you exclude first year cars (i.e. up to to last summer approximately) there are a lot less issues with the new builds. Yes, software is still buggy, but that generally doesn't affect functionality of the car. Considering whoever orders now will probably get it in 2023 - those will have both software and hardware updates...

I would have agreed with this some years back however, My Mk2 Leon never had any issues in 10 years and 100k miles, my 2019 Mk.3 Leon has many days when the infortaimnet decides to do it's own thing, even in summer months so unfortunaltly Seat never resolved problems with the Mk.3. but I guess that's modern VAG cars..

 

[C_ED_99]

Lane assist behaviour is normal, but can be changed with OBD11. I haven't noticed the other issues in my car.

Can you use OBD11 to make it less sensitive or so that it doesn't light the dash up like a Christmas tree? Two orange warning lights for LKA off is excessive